Book Reviews
Ulf Persson
Department of Mathematics
Chalmers University
of Technology

Martin Amis:Koba the dread

Lars Gyllensten\&Georg Klein:Hack i häl på Minerva

S.Åström:Ögonblick

C.P.Snow:The Two Cultures

J.Gleick:Newton

Gore Vidal:Julian

CG.Ekerwald:Nietzsche

Ingemar Hedenius:Herbert Tingsten - Människan och demokraten

Notiser om Liv och Död:H.Tingsten

Göran Hägg:Praktisk Retorik

Fernand Braudel:A History of Civilizations

Martin Gardner:Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?

N.Lane:Oxygen

David Lodge:Consciousness and the Novel

J.Myrdal:Strindberg

John Keay:India - A History

Martin Amis:The Rachel Papers

Mario Vargas Llosa:The Feast of the Goat

Stanley Wolpert:India - an introduction

Barbara D.Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf:A Concise History of INDIA

J.Diamond:The Rise and Fall of the Third Chimpanzee

J.Myrdal:Indien väntar

Kamala Das:A Childhood in Malabar

Nicholas Murray:Aldous Huxley - An English Intellectual

Anders Karlquist:Århundradets Matematik

Margaret Atwwod:Negotiating with the Dead

Peter Englund:Tystnadens historia - och andra ess\"aer

John Keegan:Churchill

Harold Bloom:Genius

Melvyn Bragg:The Adventure of English

Iris Murdoch:an accidental man

Mark Blumberg:Body Heat

H.Tingsten:När skymningen faller på

Margaret MacMillan:Paris:1919

Herbert Tingsten:Flyktförsök

A.du Botton:Kiss and Tell

Anita Desai:Baumgartner's Bombay

Steven Pinker:The Language Instinct

Katharine Tait:My father Betrand Russell

Sarvepalli Gopal:Jawaharlal Nehru

Hobsbawm:The Age of Revolution

Paul Theroux:Dark Star Safari

E.Hobsbawm:Interesting Times

K.Singh:Train to Pakistan

J.Updike:Seek my Face

R.J.Evans:The coming of the Third Reich

K.Popper:Unended Quest

Alain de Botton:essays in love

L.Ingelstam:Kampen om Kunskapen

L.Forssell:V\"anner

S.Winchester:Krakatoa

J.M.Coetzee:Boyhood

M.Roach:Stiff

Jan Morris:Heaven's Command

John Maynard Keynes:The Economic consequences of the Peace

R.Dawkins:A Devil's Chaplain

C.Johnson et al:Dreams of Calculus

G.Vidal:Palimpsest

E.Hobsbawm:The Age of Capital

Jim Corbett:The man-eaters of Kumaon

H.Nicolson:Peacemaking 1919

S.Bellow:The Victim

S.Endo:Foreign Studies

H.Lindqvist:Napoleon

S.Nordin:Ingemar Hedenius - En filosof och hans tid

Susan Sontag:On Photography

I.Hedenius:Varför blev jag den jag är?

E.Hobsbawm:The Age of Empire

C.Dickens:The Old Curiosity Shop

E.Hussey:The Pre-socratics

C.E.Schorske:Fin-de-Siecle Vienna

A.Janik and S.Toulmin:Wittgensteins Vienna

A. de Botton:Status Anxiety

G.Lefebvre:The French Revolution

C-G Ekerwald:Frihet, Jämlikhet, Briderskap - Ett försök att förstå franska revolutionen

S.Nordin:Filosofernas Krig

Plato:The Last Days of Socrates

Olof Lagercrantz:Eftertankar om Strindberg

R.Penrose:The Road to Reality - A complete guide to the laws of the Universe

Inger Enkvist:Trängd mellan politik och pedagogik - Svensk språkutbildning efter 1990

C.Tomalin:Pepys - The Unequalled Self

D.Hume:An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding

H.W.French:A Continent for the Taking - The Tragedy and Hope of Africa

William James:The Principles of Psychology - Vol. I

Colin McGinn:Mindsight

A.Zamoyski:1812 - Napoleons Fateful March on Moscow

E.Burke:Reflections on the Revolution in France

I.Murdoch:The Sandcastle

W.James:Pragmatism

D.Lodge:The practice of writing

Plato:The Symposium

G.Aly:Hitlers Volksstaat - Raub, Rassenkrieg und nationaler Sozialismus

William James:The Principles of Psychology - Vol II

E.Hobsbawm:The Age of Extremes

N.Ferguson:Empire - How Britain made the modern world

R.Swartz:Room Service

G.Frege:Funktion, Begriff, Bedeutung - Fünf logische Studien

J.S.Mill:On Liberty

Th.Mann: Doktor Faustus

J.Roth:Kaffeehaus-Frühling - Ein Wien-Lesebuch

E.H.Gombrich:The Preference for the Primitive - Episodes in the History of Western Taste and Art

W.Shakespeare:Hamlet

Bo Bergman:Hjalmar Söderberg

S.Andersson:Om Vetenskapens Gränser

M.Bulgakov:The Master and Margarita

J.Updike:Villages

J.W.Goethe:FaÂust I

F.Dürrennatt:Die Physiker

L-O.Larsson:Gustav Vasa - Landsfader eller Tyrann

I.Andersson:Erik XIV

S.Bais:The equations - icons of knowledge

K.Carlqvist:Kung Erik av folket

N.Machiavelli:The Prince

C.McGinn:The Mysterious Flame - Conscious minds in a material world

S.S.Montefiori:Stalin - The court of the red tsar

R.Kapu\'sci\'nski:The Shadow of the Sun

D.Dennett:Consciousness Explained

W.G.Sebald:Die Ringe des Saturn

T.Nagel:What does it all man?

C.McGinn:Problems of Philosophy - The Limits of Inquiry

T.Judt:Postwar - A history of Europe since 1945

H.James:The Turn of the Screw

J.Maynard Smith and E.Szathmary:the origins of life - from the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language

C.McGinn:The making of a Philosopher

M.Bienert (HG):Joseph Roth in Berlin - Ein Lesebuch für Spaziergänger

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H. Ashbury Turner, Jr:The Two Germanies since 1945

A.Armitage:The World of Copernicus

M.Ignatieff:Isaiah Berlin - A life

M. Reich-Ranicki:Nichts als Literatur - Aufsätse und Anmerkungen

W.G.Sebald:Luftkrieg und Literatur

B.Russell:Human Society in Ethics and Politics

Plato:Theaetetus

E.Janson:tiden och döden - Kungliga gravöppningar

M.Strömstedt:Astrid Lindgren - En Levnadsteckning

P.Ackroyd:London - The biography

G.Wetterberg:Levande 1600-tal

R.P.Martinsson:Russells kalkon - En bok om hur Gud och vetenskapen formade den västerländska civilizationen

W.G.Sebald:Schwindel.Gefühle.

R.J.Evans:The Third Reich in Power

Y.Kawabata:The Lake

S.Weinberg:The First Three Minutes - A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe

E.Wilson:To the Finland Station - A study in the Writing and Acting of History

D.Dennett:Darwins Dangerous Idea - Evolutions and the Meaning of Life

A.J.P. Taylor:Bismarck - The Man and the Statesman

E.Eyck:Bismarck and the German Empire

Y.Kawabata:Snow Country

I.Murdoch:the sea, the sea

E.Said:Orientalism

N.Nicolson:Portrait of a Marriage

E.Hemingway:Green Hills of Africa

A.Gide:Amyntas

A.Grafen\&M.Ridley eds.:Richard Dawkins - How a scientist changed the way we think

R.McGhee:The Last Imaginary Place - A Human History of the Arctic World

G.Kennan:The Decline of Bismarcks European order - Franco-Russian Relations 1875-1890

R.Kapuscinsky:På resa med Herodotus

A. de Botton:The Architecture of Happiness

W.James:The Will to Believe - and other essays

A.Lundkvist:Indiabrand

S.Rushdie:Midnight's Children

N.Gogol:Petersburgsberättelser

J.Diamond:Collapse - How Societies choose to fail or suceed

B.Ekström:Äventyr i Karamoja

K.Popper:The Poverty of Historicism

G.T. di Lampedusa:Leoparden

S.Mehta:Maximum City - Bombay, Lost and Found

Plato:Gorgias

H.G.Wells:A Short History of the World

O.Pamuk:Istanbul - Memories of a city

J.Flanders:Consuming Passion - Leisure and Pleasure in the Victorian Age

S.Roberts:Coxeter - King of Infinite Space

A.Manguel:With Borges

A.Gide:Falskmyntarna

E.Canetti:Party im Blitz - Die englischen Jahre

J.Didion:The year of magical thinking

D.Blackbourn:The Conquest of Nature

R.Kapu\'si\'nski:Another Day of Life

W.Kyrklund:Berättelser

C.Hibbert:The Making of Charles Dickens

A.Beevor:The Spanish Civil War

G.Orwell:Homage to Catalonia

M.Svegfors:Dag Hammarsköld - Den förste moderne svensken

I.Berlin:Russian Thinkers

N.Ljeskov:Den gamla Goda Tiden

I.Turgenev:Herrg{\aa - dsnoveller

R.G.Collingwood:The Idea of History

I.B.Cohen:The Triumph of Numbers - How counting shaped the modern life

I.N\'emirovsky:Storm över Frankrike

C.Stringer:Homo Britannicus - The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain

R.McKie, (C.Stringer):African Exodus

W.F.Ruddiman:Plows, Plagues\& Petroleum - How Humans Took Control of Climate

T.Flannery:The Weather Makers - The history and future impact of climate change

M.Ridley:Francis Crick - Discoverer of the genetic code

F.Crick:What Mad Pursuit - A personal view of scientific discovery

D.Leavitt:The Man who knew too much - Alan Turing and the Invention nof the Computer

N.Luther:Hyderabad - A biography

I.Enkvist:Uppfostran och Utbildning

C.Clark:Iron Kingdom - The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947

R.G.Collingwood:Roman Britain

D.Dennett:Breaking the Spell - Religion as a natural phenomenon

L.Hogben:Lancelot Hogben-Scientific Humanist - An unauthorized autobiography

E.Hemingway:For whom the Bells toll

R.G.Collingwood:The Idea of Nature

S.Stolpe:Idyll och orosmoln

S.Stolpe:Stormens år

S.Stolpe:Krigstid

J.Myrdal:Gubbsjuka

R.G.Collingwood:An Autobiography

S.Weinberg:Dreams of a final theory

H.Arendt:Eichmann in Jerusalem

M.Balaguer:Platonism and Anti-Platonism in Mathematics

W.G.Sebald:Austerlitz

R.Hersh:What is Mathematics Really?

R.G.Collingwood:Principles of Art

M.Reich-Ranicki:Thomas Mann und die Seinen

P.Handke:Der kurze Brief zum langen Abschied

M.Frisch:Der Mensch erscheint im Holozäan

H.Mann:Professor Unrat

P.J.Davis and R.Hersh:Descartes' Dream - The world according to mathematics

S.Sontag:Against Interpretation

F. de Saussure:Course in General Linguistics

H.James:The Europeans

W.Dalrymple:White Mughals

W.Dalrymple:The Last Mughal

E.Hemingway:The Moveable Feast

H.James:Washington Square

H.James:The Spoils of Poynton

I.Turgenjev:En Jägares Dagbok

L.Tolstoj:Hadji-Murat

P.Handke:Jugoslawien - Abschied, Winterliche Reise, Sommerlicher Nachtrag

C.S.Peirce:Philosophical Writings

H.James:What Maisie knew

A.Manguel:Nattens Bibliotek

A.Politkovskaja:Putins Ryssland

Plato:The Republic

J.E.Raven:Platons Tankevärld

W.James:Radical Empiricism

L.Simon:Genuine Reality - A Life of William James

W.James:Selected letters

N.Chomsky:Language and Responsibility

M.MacMillan:Seize the Hour - When Nixon met Mao

N.Chomsky:Reflections on Language

K.Popper:The Open Society and its Enemies - The Spell of Plato

G.H.Hardy:A Mathematicians Apology

H.Mann:Der Untertan

P.Wästberg:De hemliga rummen

J.Brent:C.S.Peirce - A Life

S.Hadenius:Gustav V - A Biography

K.Popper:The Open Society and its Enemies - Hegel and Marx

A.Lundqvist:Vulkanernas Kontinent

B.Magee:Popper

A.Lundkvist:Livsälskare, Svartmålare - En fantasi om Goya

A.Björnsson:Osmanernas rike - ett försummat europeiskt arv

D.Hay:The Medieval Centuries

R.Richardson:William James - In the Maelstrom of American Modernism

D.Lodge:Author, Author

J.S.Mill:Utilitarianism

A.N.Whitehead:The Concept of Nature

K.Marx:The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte

W.James:Talks to Teachers

G.Robb:The Discovery of France

R.Skidelsky:John Maynard Keynes - Economist, Philosopher, Statesman

P.Levy:Moore - G.E.Moore and the Cambridge Apostles

D.Kehlmann:Die Vermessung der Welt

K.Jaspers:Einführung in die Philosophie

K.Popper:Alle Menschen sind Philosophen

A.Wedberg:Filosofins Historia - Antiken och Medeltiden

A.Wedberg:Filosofins Historia - Nyare Tiden till Romantiken

A.Wedberg:Filosofins Historia - Bolzano to Wittgenstein

G.Frege:Funktion, Begriff, Bedeutung - Fünf logische Studien

H.Heine:Die Harzreise

B.Russell:Filosofins problem

B.Russell:The History of Western Philosophy

J.L.Austin:Sense and Sensibilia

A.Huxley:Point Counterpoint

D.H.Lawrence:The First Lady Chatterley

E.Hemingway:The Sun also rises

A.Chekov:Stories - The Kiss etc

E.Hemingway:The Snows of Kilimanjaro etc

A.Sokal:Beyond the Hoax - Science, Philosophy and Culture

D.Wells:Mathematics and Abstract Games - An Intimate Connection

R.Lane Fox:The Classical World

D.H.Lawrence:Lady Chatterleys Lover

W.Dalrymple:City of Djinns - A year in Delhi

S.Rushdie:Step Across This Line

K.Singh:India - An Introduction

R.Carnap:Philosophical Foundations of Physics - An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science

A.Sen:The Argumentative Indian

P.K. Varma:Being Indian

A.Ali:Twilight in Delhi

K.M.Sen:Hinduism

R.Tagore:Selected Short Stories

S-E.Liedman:Sven-Eric Liedman Blickar tillbaka

B.Russell:ABC of Relativity

N.Chomsky:Powers and Prospects - Reflections on Human Nature and the Social Order

N.Hornby:High Fidelity

B.Bryson:Mother Tongue

M.H.Hacohen:Karl Popper - The Formative years 1902-1945

D.Crystal:How language works

E.Gellner:Words and Things

K.D.Harrison:When Languages Die - The Extinction of the Worlds Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge

B.Danielsson:Bumerang

D.L.Sayers:The Nine Tailors

Y.Manin:Mathematics as Metaphor

S.Stolpe:Låt mig berätta mera

J.Buchan:Crowded with Genius - The Scottish Enlightenment: Edinburgh's Moment of the Mind

G.E.Moore:Principia Ethica

C.McGinn:Shakespeare and Philosophy - The meaning behind the plays

P.Wästberg:Vägarna till Afrika - En memoar

P.Wästberg:Förbjudet Område

P.Roth:Sabbath's Theatre

E.H.Carr:What is History

H.Read:Det moderna måleriets historia

R.Fry:Konsten och Livet

A.N.Whitehead:An Introduction to Mathematics

V.Woolf:Roger Fry - A biography

L.Tolstoy:What is Art?

D.Kehlmann:Ruhm - Ein Roman in neun Geschichten

E.H.Ulvros:Oscar I

E.Hobsbawm:Globalization, Democracy and Terrorism

J.M.Coetzee:Youth

S.Rushdie:The Satanic Verses

E.Jünger:Auf den Marmorklippen

L.Wittgenstein:Tractus - logico-philosophicus

M.du Sautoy:The Music of the Primes

J.Derbyshire:Prime Obsession - Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics

A.Smith:The Wealth of Nations - An Inquiry into the Nature and causes of the

C.Erickson:Brief Lives of the English Monarchs - From William the Conqueror to Elizabeth II

J.Berger:Ways of Seeing

T.Fontane:Unterm Birnbaum

W.G.Sebald:Die Ausgewanderten - Vier lange Erzählungen

B.Russell:My Philosophical Development

H.Read:To Hell with Culture

J.Friedrich:Der Brand - Deutschland im Bombenkrieg 1940-1945

E.Jünger:In Stahlgewittern

G.Berkeley:Principles of Human Knowledge

E.Wilson:A Window on Russia

I.Bergman:Laterna Magica

R.Evans:Till Historiens Försvar

S.Bergman:De Tusen öarna

G.Berkely:Three Dialogues

M. du Sautoy:Finding Moonshine

K.Devlin:The Language of Mathematics - Making the invisible visible

K.Devlin:Goodbye Descartes - The End of Logic and the Search for a new Cosmology of the Mind

G.B.Malleson:Akbar - and the rise of the Mughal empire

K.Devlin:The Millennium Problems - The seven greatest unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of our Time

I.Turgenev:Literary Reminiscences

H.Poincar\'e:Science and Hypothesis

L.Sterne:A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy

Erik H.Erikson:Young Man Luther - A Study in Psychoanalysis and History

F.Kafka:In der Strafkolonie

L.Lönnroth:Dörrar till främmande rum - Minnesfragment

K.Devlin:The Math Instinct

W.Heisenberg:Physics and Philosophy - The Revolution in Modern Science

L.S.Vygotsky:Fantasi och Kreativitet i Barndomen